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Anti-communist organizations
- NATOThe North Atlantic Treaty Organization began its life on the 4th of April 1949 when twelve nations signed a document in Washington.
- National Committee of Defense Against CommunismCarlos Castillo stood before a firing squad in November 1950 after his failed coup attempt against the Arévalo administration.
- White movementIn the Russian context after 1917, the word White carried three distinct meanings that shaped a movement fighting to restore order.
- TalibanIn 1994, a group of Pashtun students emerged from religious schools in Kandahar to end the chaos of Afghanistan's civil war.
- Southeast Asia Treaty OrganizationJohn Foster Dulles stood at the center of a diplomatic storm in September 1954. He negotiated the Southeast Asia Collective Defense Treaty in Manila…
- Radio Free Europe/Radio LibertyAllen Dulles formed the National Committee for a Free Europe in New York City during 1949. This front organization created Radio Free Europe to target Soviet…
- Paneuropean UnionRichard von Coudenhove-Kalergi published his manifesto Paneuropa in 1923. He was the son of an Austro-Hungarian diplomat and a Japanese mother.
- SAVAKTehran, 1957. A national security law officially birthed the Bureau for Intelligence and Security of the State. This agency would become known simply as…